The week in dog

April 22, 2011

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Easy the dog speeds on a park path during the second week of almost daily protests by animal rights activists outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. A parliamentary committee has passed a draft law that says stray dogs can be killed. Hundreds of animals rights' activists gathered outside Parliament to protest the decision. Protesters called for stray dogs to be sterilized, saying it is cheaper and more humane. Romania has long had a problem with stray dogs, with an estimated 30,000 of them in the capital alone.

Vadim Ghirda/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Easy the dog speeds on a park path during the second week of almost daily protests by animal rights activists outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. A parliamentary committee has passed a draft law that says stray dogs can be killed. Hundreds of animals rights' activists gathered outside Parliament to protest the decision. Protesters called for stray dogs to be sterilized, saying it is cheaper and more humane. Romania has long had a problem with stray dogs, with an estimated 30,000 of them in the capital alone.